Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa "Garage"

Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, ya da 250 TR, Ferrari tarafından 1957'den 1961'e üretilen bir yarıs spor otomobilidir. 1957 yarıs sezonunun sonunda, Le Mans 24 Saat ve Dünya Spor Otomobil Sampiyonası yarıslarında, otomobillere getirilen maksimum 3 litrelik motor hacmi kural degisikligine istinaden üretildi. 
250 TR, 1958, 1960 ve 1961'deki Le Mans 24 Saat yarıslarında 10 Dünya Spor Otomobil Sampiyonası kazanan varyasyonlarla birçok yarıs basarısı elde etti. Bu sonuçlar, Dünya Spor Otomobil Sampiyonası kurucusunun 1958, 1960 ve 1961 yıllarında Ferrari sampiyonlugunu ortaya çıkardı. 1958 yılındaki Ferrari’nin #14 numaralı 250TR aracının ünlü pilotu Phil Hill tarafından kazanılan efsanevi Le Mans yarısı Ferrari’ye üçüncü Dünya Sampiyonlugunu getirdi. Kazandıgı yarıslarla efsanelesen 250TR modeli Sotheby’s in açık arttırmasında 2009 yılında 9.2M $’a satılmstır. Bunu takiben 2011’deki açık arttırmada araç 16.3M $’a alıcı bulmus ve 2014 yılında bilinen son özel satısta rekor bir fiyatla 39.8M $’a satısı gerçeklesmistir.
 
 
A three-time winner of the World Sportscar Championship, the 250 Testa Rossa is one of the most successful Ferrari in history. It is now one the world’s most sought after Ferrari, after only 33 of all its variants were ever built. The 250 TR was designed to offer customers already racing with the 500 TRC a much more powerful engine on a similar chassis to help retain the former model’s great handling. Rumour also had it that the FIA would place a three-litre limit on prototypes, and this indeed proved to be the case. As a result, the reliable Columbo-designed three litre V12 from the 250 Gran Turismo was used. As with other Ferrari racing cars, Enzo Ferrari demanded absolute reliability from all components, resulting in a somewhat conservative design approach that aimed for endurance racing success through durability rather than overall speed. This proved to be a multiple-title winning decision.
This fine model is of the #14 that was driven to victory by Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1958, clinching the World Sportscar Championship for Ferrari. To set the scene, the fabled 24 Hours of Le Mans race of that year attracted a huge crowd of some 150,000 spectators, gathered in anticipation of an exciting and closely matched dual between Ferrari, Jaguar, Aston Martin and Porsche. Scuderia Ferrari had a bumper entry of 11 cars in the race, made up of both works entries and privateer teams. The race was dominated by fifteen hours of rain, three of which were torrential, which saw thirteen separate accidents, one sadly killing gentleman-driver Jean-Marie Brussin. Gendebien and Hill held the lead for 22 hours and, when Hill finally crossed the line, it marked the first ever overall Le Mans win for an American and a Belgian driver, and crowned Scuderia Ferrari as victors at the Le Mans for the third time. The duo finished a dominating twelve laps ahead of their closest opponents in second place and would go on to be the first pairing to record three victories at Le Mans just four years later. The 1957 250 TR sold for €9,020,000 at RM Sotheby's 2009 Maranello auction. At the 2011 Gooding & Co Pebble Beach auction 250 TR sold for $16.39 million. In 2014 known last private sold of 250TR was for $39.8 million.